What made this game an even bigger joke was the fact that the N64 had arguably the four greatest wrestling games of all time. By comparison this was even shittier than it would have been on any other system.

The name Backstage Assault sounds like it could be the name of a Law & Order spinoff series. After The Puerto Rican tag team was assaulted at Clash of the Champions 19 who do you call? L&O:BA. Just think how fast they could have investigated the scene when Stone Cold got run over.

If Doug Dillinger & Vince Russo are characters in the game why not Ed Ferrera or Klondike Bill? Perhaps even Grizzly Smith, Annette Yothers or Janie Engle. I don’t know enough about this Virgil Runnels person to say if they should be included or not.

I owned this game because I had my PS1 modded to play imports and burned games. So I had my WCW loving cousin burn me a copy of his. Immediately knew after a few minutes I wasted my blank CD and yelled at him for not warning me. I did enjoy yelling “Who’s in the back? or “Who’s in the Humvee?”. My personal favorite was ” Who could that be in the Limousine?”. And people asked how I could play the old ECW games.

I thought WrestleMania 2000 was better because of the lack of slowdown in 4 player matches. I’d also put Fire Pro Wrestling Returns over the AKI games personally. and Wrestlefest in the arcades deserves a mention as well.

All the THQ/AKI N64 games were great (No Mercy glitches aside). Huge ECW fan, so there warzone/attitude upgraded ECW games were loved by me. Had to be 18 to own btw. I agree with Walt as far as Humans/Spike Fire Pro Games being a favorite. The longevity of these games alone does it. Japanese wrestling games were always better. Whether it be Fire Pro, 90’s New Japan games (pretty much becoming wwe smack down games), King of Colliseum and Giant Gram for dreamcast.

I also liked the AJPW games, Natsume Championship Wrestling for the SNES was a blatant copy after Natsume lost the AJPW license. I never played but always wanted to play Virtual Pro Wrestling 1 and 2 for the N64